The plants are tall (2 ft.) - leaves are narrow and pointed. The single "showy" yellow flowers dangle off the leaf on a short thin wiry inflorescence (in the manner of Pl. adeleae - it surely must be in the same section as adeleae) The flowers are 2 1/4" long. Long dorsal sepal is 1 1/4" long. Platter-like fused synsepal. The overall color of the flower is a translucent gold. A very desirable species.

Very cute small species to 4” tall with wiry leaf stems. Single ¼” flowers at base of leaf are golden with a reddish suffusion offset by a wine-red lip. Interestingly, this plant has been identified by Selby as Pl. circumplexa (O.I.C. # 13938), but they did state that this plant is NOT typical. We are not using that name because this plant and flowers do not remotely resemble the photos of Pl. circumplexa on the Internet or in books such as ‘Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama’ (Dressler)

Variable species is more correctly named R. muscifera. Ours is a broad-leaf form with very colorful flowers, red lateral sepals, dorsal spotted with red-purple. Flowers are produced successively in a fascicle at the base of the back of the leaf. Rewarding easy species.

Minature-sized warm-growing epiphyte. The “Bug-like Scaphosepalum” refers to the shape of the “showy” ¾” flowers. Blooms in the winter on a slender 5" long, successively several-flowered inflorescence. Good species!

Miniature clumping epiphyte has wire-like spikes which hold the single flowers out away from the plant (successively many flowered). Tiny 3/8" flowers are yellowish with an elongated red lip. This has just been described as a new species by Carlyle Luer. Most Scaphosepalum species have proven easy to grow in our intermediate climate and quite rewarding.